Details

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is binarycompatible with MySQL.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the MariaDB database server.Information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Critical PatchUpdate Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2014-2436,CVE-2014-2440, CVE-2014-0384, CVE-2014-2419, CVE-2014-2430, CVE-2014-2431,CVE-2014-2432, CVE-2014-2438)

These updated packages upgrade MariaDB to version 5.5.37. Refer to theMariaDB Release Notes listed in the References section for a complete listof changes.

All MariaDB users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correctthese issues. After installing this update, the MariaDB server daemon(mysqld) will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released erratarelevant to your system have been applied.